book which he can conveniently read in connection with a course of lectures on surgery. As pointed out, the student has no time to read the majority of text-books on surgery and requires help to keep in touch with lectures. Viewed from this standpoint the present volume should meet with universal approval. A special feature is the sub-division of the various subjects into sections under the hea...

This is a most comprehensive work of over 1,200 pages in two volumes with 443 illustrations, 66 of which are coloured. Ninteen American pathologists have assisted in writing it, so that each section is by one who has paid special attention to the subject he treats of, the science of pathology having made such great strides within recent years as to fully justify and render desirable such a divi...

This booklet consists of the addresses delivered at the opening of the new laboratory for biochemical research at McLean Hospital. Cecil K. Drinker reviews the history of research at McLean Hospital. Jordi Foich surveys biochemical research in psychiatry with emphasis on his own contributions to the chemical constitution of the brain. The record of reasearch at the Psychiatric Service of the Ma...

T HIS iS .A very interesting book. It is divided into two main sections one on the tubercle bacillus and one on laborator-y methods. The section on the tubercle bacillus gives a most interesting and comprehensive survey of the great amount of wvork that has been done on the characteristics of the organism-its mo)rphology, the cultural characteristics of its various types, its pathogenicity for ...

This book forms a most welcome and useful addition to the well-known Edinburgh Medical Series of Messrs. A. & C. Black. It is admirably adapted for students and young practitioners as it is up-to-date, contains practical essentials, and avoids theoretical diffuseness. Neither does it aim at being a compendium for reference, nor does it attain brevity at the expense of being readable and interes...

This paper reports on a project to digitise and analyse sample reading books recently used within British Primary schools. Through analysis of the textual content of example texts from this corpus, we aimed to illustrate statistical characteristics of these texts and consider implications for the expected rate of progression across texts intended for different school levels. Our project also in...